TRAIN COLLISION.
DETAILS OF TIIK ACCrDEVf. LIST OF IXJUHKD. Mfir.uoniXE, January 2S. The accident was due to the excursion train uu the narrow gauge line from Ferntree Gully to Uembruok becoming dcl'aileil. It consisted of eight covered trucks, containing 250 Melbourne excursionists.
Hounding the curve the engine left the line, dragging with it three trucks crammed with passengers. 11 ploughed along for some distance up an embankment, and then fell over the side.
The scene was one of wild excite, ment.
When the passengers wore extricated from die splintered trucks it was found that about seventy had received injuries, Hie majority being slight. The most serious mishaps were to Cox and Ernest Glecson, both internally; Mrs (ileeson, a damaged leg; Thrusscll, fractured arm ; Teeiver and Shechau, fractured wrists and badly cut.
. T»-o or three others are suffering very severely from shock.
Trains despatched from Melbourne brought the excursionists back. A great crowd waited till early morni«S at Speneer-streel station.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8040, 30 January 1906, Page 2
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159TRAIN COLLISION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8040, 30 January 1906, Page 2
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